Ask your specialist to base the document on TOYOTA COMPANY.

• Examine and critically review the peer and faculty feedback that was offered during the Shared Activity.

• Review the Readings and, in particular, examine the works by Porter (2008) and Pitt and Koufopoulos.

• Review the Tools for Your Strategic Thoughts document and consider how to best deploy them. You are not required to use the pre-designed templates, but you will be responsible for a robust and complete analysis with implications clearly stated.

• Consider the implications of the articles by Nandakumar, et al. (2010) and Andrews and Morgen (2013) as you develop the final draft of your Individual Assignment.

To complete your Individual Assignment:

• Examine and critically incorporate peer and Faculty Member feedback offered during the Shared Activity to modify and improve your general ecosystem and stakeholder analysis work.

Note: This draft is not meant to be a wholesale but rather an inclusion of any important changes based on peer feedback recently given.

• Conduct a thorough and well-argued competitive forces analysis (focusing on the Porter (2008) framework and work by Pitt and Koufopoulos (2012: Chapter 3).

• Be sure to support your postings with evidence from the Readings and current literature from the UoRL Library and other sources. Consult the Harvard Referencing Style Guide for proper citation and referencing information.

To complete this Shared Activity:

• Conduct a thorough and well-argued general external ecosystem analysis for the industry of the organisation you have chosen.

Be sure to explain what the strategic implications of your analysis are and how the set of implications limits or shapes your strategic recommendations.

Be sure to identify specific future strategy actions and recommendations based on your evaluation of options and to provide a basic defense of why your recommended actions are the most appropriate.

• Conduct a thorough and well-argued stakeholder analysis for the industry of the organisation you have chosen.

Be sure to explain what the strategic implications of your analysis are and how the set of implications limits or shapes your strategic recommendations.

Be sure to identify specific future strategy actions and recommendations based on your evaluation of options and to provide a basic defense of why your recommended actions are the most appropriate.